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Great shots. MegaSceneryEarth I assume. I've actually backpacked in the area of pics #11 and 12. Otherwordly being above tree line for 10 days - like you're on the moon. Great to see from the air as well.

I had the Full Control version working in Win 8 (NGX). Went to Win 10 and now I only have the "View Only" license model. What is the procedure to change this back to Full Control? Eric Anderson

A bit too much elevator for me.

Navigraph has a one time starter update that gets you to the current date and it was only something like $6. I did that for my NGX and it's working pretty well. That's pretty affordable and may solve your incompatibility issues.

88NV Burning Man http://88nv.burningman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Airport-Pattern.9-2015.pdf http://88nv.burningman.com/ This airport is a temporary airport centered around Labor Day each year in the Black Rock Desert of NW Nevada. In 2015 there were numerous charters using large multi-engine (large for a playa surface runway anyway) turbo-prop and some smaller jets and many luxury helicopters. ATC in Reno is very busy during the festival and during the weekend of the burn, they are busier than Reno or Sacramento. Some charters come from as far away as Burbank. The runways are laid-out two weeks before the event (which ends on Labor Day) and is deconstructed immediately afterwards. They have their own Unicom and Ground frequencies and are on the Sectional chart (Klamath Falls). There are days where there are over 100 planes parked on the playa. During the festival, the burning man city, Black Rock City, is the 7-9th largest city in Nevada (depending on how you look at it) and is bigger than the capitol, Carson City. The runways would be modeled in playa texture. It would be fantastic to model the circular layout of the city itself with the 100 ft Man in center of it all. If one could animate the ubiquitous flames at night this airport would be extremely popular. Animated Art Cars would be a hoot! I have a direct connection to airport staff and could provide detailed information if needed. And here's a challenge, tie the visibility of the airport and city to the flight sim calendar! Here today, gone tomorrow! What do ya think?

Many of the shots are over the Wind River Range. In shot 15, there is a lake in the bottom center. That's Green River Lake and I camped there with my family this summer. I hiked along the lakeshore in the shot and went up the canyon near the right end of it. Incredible place and I've been flying over it in the sim myself!

What photo-realistic scenery are you using?

In the NGX manual there is a section where they discourage users from loading new liveries on top of a flight where the NGX is already the aircraft. Basically, you should start FSX with a default aircraft then select the NGX and its livery from the menu once. After that, don't change an NGX livery or you'll get CTD. The problem you're having I think is related.

What photo-realistic scenery is that? Eric Anderson

Well this is a documented problem and is addressed in the PMDG 737NGX Introduction Manual on page 36. They mention that PMDG "products don't like to be loaded on top of themselves" or they can CTD ("crash to desktop"), This means you need to start with a default FSX plane then select a PMDG livery to avoid a CTD. If you start with a saved PMDG plane and then change liveries, you will be "loading another PMDG plane on top of another" which can often result in a CTD. A PMDG flight shouldn't be the default flight either according to the manual. They say this applies to all PMDG products. Yes this is a case of RTFM.

Yes, still very relevant and there were no other posts that directly addressed the subject. I know that if I had come across my answer it would help. If there are others with this issue please feel free to chime in. I would like to add that whenever I use the PMDG airplane, when I end a flight, FSX doesn't return to the main menu but crashes then as well. I'm hoping there are others in this situation that may know how to fix or perhaps know if PMDG/Steam is aware of it. Thanks.

I have FSX on Steam (new in 8/2015) and the 737 NGX (new in late 8/2015) and I am on Windows 8.1, i7-4790 16GB RAM. The NGX worked well in the standard liveries but when I tried to apply a newly downloaded livery, FSX would crash (no message). I was using a saved flight. I tried to zero the flaps in the saved flight before applying the new livery but crash it did. What worked was creating a new flight using the new livery. So far, no crash. Will test some more and if I discover anything interesting I will update this post.